Depth Cues
A depth cue that involves the eyes turning inwards as they focus on an object getting closer.
What is convergence?
The variable that will be manipulated in and experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The tendency to let one positive quality influence our overall beliefs about a person.
What is the halo effect?
A heuristic that involves forming judgement based on the first information received.
What is anchoring?
A widely held belief and generalisation about a group.
What is a stereotype?
A depth cue that involves the lens bulging and flattening.
What is accommodation?
A statistical measure of centre that is very useful if the data has outliers.
What is the median?
The tendency to search for and accept information that supports our prior beliefs.
What is confirmation bias?
A heuristic that involves making judgements based on information that is easily accessible.
What is availability?
An evaluation about the cause of behaviour and the process of making this evaluation.
What is an attribution?
A pictorial depth cue connected to the way train tracks appear to move closer together as they recede into the distance.
What is Linear Perspective?
A sampling technique that is most likely to produce a representative sample.
What is stratified?
The tendency to overestimate the degree to which other people share the same ideas and attitudes as we do.
What is False-consensus bias?
A heuristic that involves using emotion to make a judgement.
What is affect?
This proposes that affective, cognitive and behavioural components must all exist for an attitude to truly be present.
What is the tri-component model?
A depth cue related to the fact that each eye receives a slightly different image.
What is retinal disparity?
A type of extraneous variable where participants may be given unintentional hints about the true intention of an experiment.
What are Demand characteristics?
The tendency to attribute positive success to our internal character and failure to external causes.
What is Self-serving bias?
A heuristic that involves making judgements based on similarlity to other related things.
What is representative?
The different mental processes used to understand and form impressions of other people.
What is person perception?
A depth cue related to the fact that objects far away seem to move very slowly while close objects seem to move very quickly.
What is motion parallax?
An experimental design that will not create order effects.
What is Between subjects?
The tendency to attribute our own actions to external factors while attributing other people's actions to internal factors.
What is Actor-observer bias?
A type of bias that involves more importance being placed on vivid memories than statistical fact.
What is base rate fallacy?
Our tendency to explain other people's behaviour in terms of external factors, while ignoring possible external factors.
What is fundamental attribution error?